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Some site maintenance over the next few hours or days. The Nepotist is trying on some alternate formats in order to more fully accommodate your poems.
--The Nepotist
Some site maintenance over the next few hours or days. The Nepotist is trying on some alternate formats in order to more fully accommodate your poems.
--The Nepotist
If you were included in the first wave of invitees to submit to The Nepotist and are planning to send work, I'd like to encourage you to do that as soon as possible. The sooner I have a fair amount of submissions, the sooner I can launch the journal. The sooner I launch the journal, the sooner those of you who worry that this is a gag will have your fears allayed. I have received ten submissions so far with an almost equal number promising to send work soon. A second wave of invitations will go out later this week.
Also, I added a page of Frequently Asked Questions (see left). I'll let you know when I update them.
--The Nepotist
Why haven't you revealed your name?
Because revealing my name turns the project into something that points to me as the editor rather than you as the authors. I'm choosing to remain anonymous for as long as possible (hopefully forever) for exactly that reason.
Also, there's fun in mystery. Enjoy the intrigue!
What's your angle, Nepotist?
I want to publish my friends. Really. Sincerely. There's no nefarious end here.
Again: 'friend' is a loose term. Yes, some of us are pals and buddies and cronies and comrades in real life. Others of you I know only virtually, and even then, not that well. Yet others of you I do not know at all, but your poems have been crucial to me and I cherish them.
You're taking anything I send you? No editing? What's up with that?
What's up with that is that we're all poets and we presumably know what we're doing. I leave it to you to pick the poems you want showcased. My own tastes in poetry are... my own tastes. I don't want this journal to be a reflection of my personal preferences. I want it to showcase the varied talents and bents of the community I belong to.
What about rights and permissions? Can I send previously published work?
The poems are yours and belong solely to you. All I ask is that you agree to name The Nepotist as first publisher of these works if they appear elsewhere (in anthologies or your published collections). I'd rather not have previously published work, though I don't consider poems that have appeared on your own web pages, blogs, or social networking sites as 'previously published.'
What if we aren't friends? How can I publish in The Nepotist?
I've been thinking on that. Once the journal launches, there will be a way for "non-friends" (yes, I, too, cringe at that wording) to submit poems. Details yet to be hammered out.
I still don't trust you.
I can respect that. But please know that once you've been invited to submit, you are always invited. If you change your mind at any point you can send along poems.
It occurred to me somewhere during the middle of sending solicitation emails that it might be helpful for recipients to know, at least, whether or not we have met in person and so I began adding that information at the bottom of the solicitations or under cover of a second email If you didn't get that clarification and would like it, please feel free to contact me.
Wait, I think we know each other but I didn't get an invitation. I mean, all my friends got emails, but I didn't.
I am sending out solicitations in waves. If you haven't received one yet, that doesn't mean you won't. Also, check your Spam file.
If you receive an invitation in a second, third, or fourth wave it does not mean I like you less or that I don't know you in person. In fact, I've deliberately mixed the invitation order.
The poems will be published in, more or less, the order they are received. I know there's reticence about sending a submission to an unknown editor. Once I get about 20 or 30 submissions, I will set a launch date.
Can you tell us ANYTHING about yourself?
Yes. I like you.
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